Rachel Taylor

PhD Student in Chemical Engineering (Since Fall 2020) with her BS from UC Santa Barbara. She is working on water electrolyzers using RO membranes.

Amir Akbari
PhD student in Chemical Engineering (Fall 2022). Amir received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashad and a MS in Energy Systems Engineering for the University of Tehran. Amir’s research focuses on electrochemical nutrient recovery from agricultural wastewaters.

Chenghan Xie

PhD Student in Environmental Engineering (Fall 2022) with his bachelor’s degree from Peking University. His research focuses on designing new membranes for H₂ production using water electroers.

Arash Emdadi
PhD student in Chemical Engineering (Fall 2022). Arash received his MS in Energy Science and Technology at the Istanbul Technical University and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Arash’s research focuses on electromembrane systems for resource recovery and salinity gradient energy conversion.
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Xuechen Zhou
Postdoctoral Researcher (Since February 2022). Xuechen received his PhD degree from Yale University. At PSU, Xuechen is working on the membrane optimization for H₂ production using water electrolyzers. Google Scholar 

Bin Bian
Postdoctoral Researcher (November 2022). Bin received his PhD degree from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. While at Penn State Dr. Bian’s research focus will be on the novel design for electrode materials and reactor configurations for microbial electrosynthesis from CO₂.

Najiaowa Yu

Postdoctoral Researcher (Since January 2023). Jiaowa received her PhD degree from the University of Alberta in Canada. She is working on anaerobic biotechnology and microbial electrosynthesis for natural gas production. Google Scholar